Hi,
I am curious whether my reasoning is right.
That is what you want people to think of you.
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My reasoning is as follows.
That is ~
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You want people to think of you.
→ what you want people to think of you.
= That is what you want people to think of you.
Am I right?
The clip doesn’t show enough. Before the clip begins, the speaker probably gave an example. Then he said “That’s what you want people to think of you.”
The first word is cut off in the middle. It sounds like he’s saying “Now that’s what you want people to think of you.”
The clip doesn’t show it, so this is a completely made up example. He might say something like,
“If you treat people fairly they will think you are honest. Now that’s what you want people to think of you.”
Hi,
Above all, thank you so much for your reply.
Here is snipping of a short conversations whereby you can observe what the context is like.
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A: You spend too much time worrying about what other people think of you.
B: I could care less what anyone thinks of me.
(Maybe this sentence should be corrected like “I counldn’t less ~~~”)
A: That’s what you want people to think of you.
Oh, that is different than what I said before.
B says he doesn’t care what people think of him.
A says that B wants people to think B doesn’t care what people think of him. So A is saying that B really does care what people think of him.
“I want people to think I don’t care what they think.” is a contradiction.